Studies in Law, Politics and Society

by Susan S. Silbey (Editor), Austin Sarat (Editor), Patricia Ewick (Editor)

Overview

This volume presents articles by an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars spanning the social sciences, humanities, and law. It examines new perspectives on political relationships, politics and legal reform, and law and the family.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762305421
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	12/18/1998
Series:	Studies in Law, Politics, and Society , #18
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

1. Evolutionary History: The Changing Purposes for Capital Punishment
2. The Heart Has its Reasons: Examining the Strange Persistence of the American Death Penalty
3. Rule of Law Abolitionism
4. Not Wiser After Thirty Five Years of Contemplating the Death Penalty
5. Facts and Furies: The Antinomies of Facts, Law, and Retribution in the Work of Capital Prosecutors.
6. The Judicial Use of International and Foreign Law in Death Penalty Cases: A Poisoned Chalice?
7. Death, Unravelled

Editorial Reviews

Academics from the fields of law, political science, sociology, and English contribute nine articles exploring the law's interaction with civil society. The articles have been organized by Sarat (law and political science, Amherst College) and Ewick (sociology, Clark U.) into four sections related to: the status of the legal family, punishment, national sovereignty, and theory. Specific topics treated include the politics of same-sex marriage, the legal rhetorical strategies of the notion of "civil" versus "savage," the detection of remorse in relation to sentencing, and the strategies of democratizing forces in Mexico in the past decade. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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